Fire officials were investigating a blaze at a southern Indiana elementary school.
Authorities said that a fire broke out early Friday morning at Southwestern Elementary School in Hanover.
No one was inside the school at the time of the blaze, and there were no injuries reported, according to fire officials.
However, school officials said that classes were cancelled due to the damage and clean up efforts that were expected to continue throughout the day.
Firefighters said the sprinkler system extinguished the fire, but left a lot of water in the school.
Firefighters blew smoke out of the building and shut down the water service.
"It looks like a lot of it did burn, but a lot of it's just wet," principal Miriam Matthews said.
Investigators think the fire probably started in materials that were too close to an electrical heater in the ceiling of an art classroom's closet.
it's just things, and nobody was hurt, that's the good thing," art teacher Ginny Lichlyter said. "I have 30 years worth of materials that were in that closet, so most of them are gone."
